Odysseus at Calypso, Gerard de Lairesse
The Greek poet Homer tells how the war hero Odysseus ends up on the island of the nymph Calypso. The Trojan War is over: the love god Amor teasingly puts the battle helmet now on Calypso's head. Odysseus and Calypso promptly fall in love. The painting hung in the Soestdijk hunting lodge, in the rooms of Mary Stuart, wife of William III.
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